Lee Strobel

But he gave me opportunities.

He saw something in me and said, you know, I think maybe God's given you a gift to communicate, to preach.

And honestly, I thought he had, but I thought I'm not going to say anything because there's too much of a risk of self-harm.

uh... promotion so if god is calling me to preach to teach to write books he'll make it happen i'm not gonna say anything and one day knocked on my door and came in and say you know the elders were praying and we believe god's given you a gift and i want to help you develop it he helped develop me uh... to preach and uh... to write and uh... so i owe a lot to bill uh... and when i left and i heard these stories about his inappropriate relationships and so forth

The first reaction I have, it broke my heart.

And it almost broke the church.

I mean, it was a very difficult time for the church.

A lot of people left the church.

They got some new leadership in there.

It's doing great now.

I mean, that's a horrible thing to have a leader of a church fall.

It hurts the faith of people who say, maybe inappropriately so, because we're all sinners.

We all mess up.

We all have flaws and so forth.

We put sometimes preachers on pedestals, and maybe they don't 100% deserve to be on.

But when one of them falls, it can be devastating to people's faith.

That's what breaks my heart especially because I –

My goal in life is to drag as many people to heaven with me as I can.

And this frustrates that because of the number of people who were hurt personally by that.

Robert Morris.